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Zelenskiy Says Ukraine Must Try to Ensure War Ends Next Year through Diplomacy

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference after the 5th summit of the European Political Community (EPC) in Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, 07 November 2024. (EPA)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference after the 5th summit of the European Political Community (EPC) in Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, 07 November 2024. (EPA)
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Zelenskiy Says Ukraine Must Try to Ensure War Ends Next Year through Diplomacy

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference after the 5th summit of the European Political Community (EPC) in Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, 07 November 2024. (EPA)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference after the 5th summit of the European Political Community (EPC) in Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, 07 November 2024. (EPA)

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Ukraine must do all it can to ensure the war with Russia ends next year through diplomacy.

In a radio interview aired on Saturday, Zelenskiy conceded that the battlefield situation in eastern Ukraine was difficult and Russia was making advances. He said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was not interested in agreeing to a peace deal.

Zelenskiy said US legislation prevented him from meeting President-elect Donald Trump before his inauguration next January. The Ukrainian leader said he would only talk with Trump himself rather than any emissary or advisor.

"I, as the president of Ukraine, will only take seriously a conversation with the president of the United States of America, with all due respect to any entourage, to any people."

"From our side, we must do everything so that this war ends next year, ends through diplomatic means," Zelenskiy said.

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5.6 Magnitude Quake Shakes Buildings in Taiwan, Series of Temblors Hit the Island

Shoppers crowd for the upcoming Lunar New Year celebrations at a market in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
Shoppers crowd for the upcoming Lunar New Year celebrations at a market in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
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5.6 Magnitude Quake Shakes Buildings in Taiwan, Series of Temblors Hit the Island

Shoppers crowd for the upcoming Lunar New Year celebrations at a market in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
Shoppers crowd for the upcoming Lunar New Year celebrations at a market in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing little damage but possibly portending more seismic activity in the near future.
The biggest of the quakes hit at 10:11 a.m. (0211 GMT) in Chiayi county’s Dapu township at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), according to the Central Weather Agency and the U. Geological Survey. The epicenter was about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of the capital, Taipei, where buildings swayed slightly, The Associated Press reported.
That was followed shortly afterward by at least a dozen smaller quakes in Dapu. No damage or casualties were immediately reported.
All were aftershocks from a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck Dapu on Jan. 21 and sent 15 people to the hospital with minor injuries and damaged buildings and a highway bridge.
Last April, a magnitude 7.4 quake hit the island’s mountainous eastern coastal county of Hualien, killing at least 13 people, injuring more than 1,000 others, collapsing a hotel and forcing the closure of Toroko National Park. That was the strongest earthquake in 25 years and was followed by hundreds of aftershocks.
Taiwan is going through a period of increased seismic activity that could lead to further aftershocks or new quakes, according to the CWA and earthquake experts.
Taiwan lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean from Chile to New Zealand where most of the world’s earthquakes occur.
The 1999 magnitude 7.7 quake killed 2,415 people, damaged buildings around the island of 23 million people and led to tightened building codes, better response times and coordination and widespread public education campaigns on earthquake safety.
Schools and workplaces hold earthquake drills, while cellphones buzz whenever a strong earthquake is detected.